Hardcover. New York, Junior Books- Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound. Black & white and color illustrations by Holbrook. Previous owner's signature front endpaper. Soiling to covers. Tear at top of spine. Corners a bit bumped, rubbed.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BOTH TAN AND SHIELDS on the half-title page. On a rainy afternoon, a woman shares with three restless granddaughters her "earliest memory" from her childhood in China. Adapted from Tan's The Joy Luck Club , the haunting tale that unfolds is worthy of retelling--and of repeated rereading. The narrator, Ying-ying, recalls waking up at the age of seven on the morning of the Moon Festival; it was a steamy day, and "the sun drove rays through the bamboo curtains like knives." Filled with similarly vivid images, Tan's lilting text conveys Ying-ying's contagious excitement about the festivities. These include the appearance of the Moon Lady, who can fulfill one's secret wish. Later, celebrating with her family on a "floating teahouse," Ying-ying loses her balance and falls into the lake, where she is caught in a fisherman's net. He returns her to shore, where her secret wish is granted: she is found by her family, and thus learns a lesson about which kind of wishes come true. Tan has done a superb job of distilling this incident for young readers, who will be as mesmerized by the expressive narrative as by Schields's ornately detailed paintings, ablaze with luminous color.
Hardcover. Boston, Estes and Lauriat, 1st, 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 265 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. 8 black & white drawings by George Foster Barnes. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise excellent condition, illustrated cover with gilt lettering on spine.
Hardcover. New York, Philomel Books, 1st , 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardbound. Dust jacket. Color illustrations by Yoshida. Excellent condition.
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Lane Smith. Unpaginated. With complete number line. A 1993 Caldecott honor book - delightfully illustrated parodies of children's fairy tales. The entire book, with its unconventional page arrangement and eclectic, frenetic mix of text and pictures, is a spoof on the art of book design and the art of the fairy tale. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Viking, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages, Hardcover with dust jacket. including index. Black and white illustrations by Michael McCurdy. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. NY, Peter Bendrick, 1st US, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations by Froud, 6 double-page spreads featuring pop-ups / moveable parts. All very good in working order. Small nick to cardboard spine otherwise very good. No dust jacket issued.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a nice, price-clipped dust jacket. 64 pages, Black & white illustrations by Donald Carrick. In a library binding, but NOT ex-library. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London / NY, Nister / Dutton, Unknown, N.D., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 6 brilliant chromolith plates + 80 Black & white drawings. 3 color and gilt illustrated cover. All edges red. Small town library bookplate, envelope in rear. Previous owner's inscription dated 1897. Very Attractive Copy.
Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st illus. thus, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover ith dust jacket. Color illustrations by Emily Arnold McCully. Dust jacket price clipped.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Peter M. Fiore. In new condition.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf/Jr. Literary Guild, 1st Jr. Literary Guild, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 179 pages. Black & white drawings and color frontispiece by Erick Berry. Light spine fade, wear to edges.
Hardcover. Scarsdale NY, Bradbury Press, 2nd pr., 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Paul Goble. Two young Sioux join in a raiding party to capture horses from some neighboring Crows. Front endpapers with stamp inside front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st thus, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Uri Shulevitz. Honor Book sticker on dust jacket. Tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with color, black & white illustrations by Donald Carrick. Dust jacket price clipped.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards. Filled with dragon lore, this oversized pop-up fantasy book explores the mystical and frightening worlds of the Chinese Dragon, the Amphiptere, the Lindworm, the dreaded Wyvern, and the famous Dragon of Saint George. Paper engineering by Keith Moseley.
Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 89 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by George Sharp. Light edgewear to dust jacket.
NY, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1st US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial boards, color illustrations by Hughes. Hoping that a surprise birthday party will help to cheer up neighbor and store owner Mr. MacNally, Alfie plans an additional, extra-special surprise and fears he cannot keep his plans a secret.
Hardcover. NY, Frederick Warne, 1st, 2009, Pictorial boards, 16 pages with 8 interactive spreads, all using Barker's art from her Flower Fairies series. What happens when a little girl moves into a new house and discovers a tiny door? One day she manages to open it . . . and her world is forever changed when she gets her fi rst peek at the homes and the magical world of the Flower Fairies. As she starts to explore her neighborhood with a friend, they discover that there are more doors--all leading to the most secret of fairy places. Filled with gorgeous paper ephemera, pop-ups and special interactive features on every spread, this beautiful novelty book leads the reader to eight fairy doors to open and investigate. Each door has its own individual shape, color and characteristics-- some are decorated, others have little signs or notices, a set of footprints leading up to it, or magical fairy glitter at the doorstep. As the book progresses, more of the fairies and their world are revealed, culminating in an exciting and secret fairy nighttime ball.
NY, Dutton, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations with flaps by author. Remainder mark on bottom-edge. No dust jacket as issued.
Hardcover. New York, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1st , 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 56 pages. Two-color pictures by Trina Schart Hyman. Front endpaper bottom corner creased. Pictorial cover onlaid front and back on heavy paper covered boards.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, short closed tears. B&w pictures by William Pene Du Bois. $8 pages. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Lothrop, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED ON BY WISNIEWSKI on title-page. Color illustrations by author. Tight copy.
Hardcover. Paris FR, E. Plon, Nourrit , unknown, nd, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 47 pages. Color illustrations by the author. Red top edge. Lavender covers with green and gold decoration. Corners and spine rubbed. Light soiling to covers. Spine a bit loose.
Hardcover. NY, Phaidon Press, reprint, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 32 pages illustrated in color by Ungerer. A reprint of the 1980 tale of an eight-legged hero who has twice as much courage and four times as many legs as most people - except, of course, other octopuses. When deep-sea diver Captain Samovar is attacked by a ferocious shark, Emile comes to his aid. Grateful to his rescuer, the Captain invites him to stay at his home, where Emile sleeps in a bathtub full of salt water. Emile turns out to be a fantastic octopus: he is a gifted musician (able to play three instruments simultaneously) and a great lifeguard, teaching children to swim and saving people from drowning. One day, Emile and the Captain, who works on a police launch, encounter a suspicious-looking boat in the ocean, with a dangerous group of smugglers on board... Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY VAN ALLSBURG on title-page. Light edgewear and rubbing to covers. Color illustrations by the author.
Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Non-Paginated. Cloth boards. Illustrated in color by Greg Clarke.
Hardcover. London, Bodley Head, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Wonderful watercolor illustrations by Cox tell the story of a Balinese girl performing her first Legong dance. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Dial, 1st US, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 31 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Shirley Tourret. Embossed cover with gilt lettering. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers , 1st, 1977, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Story retold by Haubensak-Tellenbach. Color illustrations by Erna Emhardt. Dust jacket with edgewear, soiling.
Hardcover. Stockholm, Albert Bonniers, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong pictorial boards with green cloth spine. Beautiful color plates by Beskow. SWEDISH TEXT. Small sticker on inside front cover, otherwise a clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Atheneum, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Jaques. Story of a wooden doll's search for her teddy bear friend. Foxing on half title page. Slight odor.
Hardcover. Buffalo NY, Annick Press, 1st US, 1994, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, laminated pictorial boards. No dust jacket. Color illustrations by Bernard Oberdieck. No dust jacket. A rare white owl who has always lived in a cage in a travelling circus is bought by the gardener at a nearby castle, who lets her out of her cage in the attic to scare the mice. When the opportunity for escape presents itself, the owl hesitates. Freedom means taking responsibility and risks. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Godine, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Mary Azarian. Light edgewear to price-clipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AZARIAN. A man who had been unhappy as a child finds after he has grown up that he is happy living alone in his cabin in the New England woods.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. B&W illustrations by Emma L. Brock. Decorated blue cloth with shelfwear, light soil to end papers. Mild water stain to front end- paper. Review copy stamp to blank prelim. page.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow , 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket with light edgewear. Thirty full-color reproductions of paintings by a world-famous artist provide the basis for an allegory of love involving the quest of the white tiger for the tigress of his dreams. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Color illustrations by Dale Gottlieb. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping, and rubbing.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Illustrated in color, b&w by the authors. In a lightly chipped dust jacket with fading to spine.
Hardcover. NY, Golden Press, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, laminated boards. Color illustrations by Feodor Rojankovsky. First published in 1949, this appears to be a 70s reprint, code letters inside rear cover stop at J. A big elephant leaves the circus, builds a house, helps the townspeople, and finds happiness. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color illustrations by the author. Pictorial boards, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Z. Walck, 1st US, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color, b&w illustrations by Ardizzone. Ex-library copy with stamping, residue to end papers. Dust jacket with small spine sticker.
Hardcover. NY, Child Guidance Books, 1st, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Includes five pages with moving figures under cellophane (figures move automatically as book is opened or pages are turned.) Illustrated by Liz Dauber. Oblong format. Very good in glossy illustrated boards. No markings. No date but appears to 1970s.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Antonio Frasconi. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Lewin. Ex-lib with light stamping, residue to end papers, otherwise clean internally with a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Uncommon.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Based on a tale by Nathaniel Hawthorne, here retold in verse. Black and white drawings and silhouettes by Marc Brown. Dust jacket with closed tear, edgewear at top of cover.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrated by the Woods. Like new in a bright dust jacket. Tight copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman, 5th pr., 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with color illustrated pastedown on front cover. Color illustrations by Lindman. Ex-lib with light stamping, marking, residue to end papers. Mild red stain to left bottom corner of cover plate.
New York, Hyperion, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 31 pages. Color illustrations by Michael McCurdy.A baby boy, left alone in the African jungle after the deaths of his parents, is adopted by an ape and raised to manhood without ever seeing another human being.
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